![]() A romantic novel, which you won't be able to put down. Me before you is the first novel in the book series trilogy by British writer Jojo Moyes. Characters swear, using British terms such as "arse" and "bloody, as well as "f-k," "s-t," "bitch," "piss," and "d-k." One character recalls being raped, but it's not described in detail. ![]() There's no smoking marijuana use is mentioned in a flashback and there's little sexual content beyond flirting and kissing. All the characters drink socially, including to excess on a few occasions. Although it's not marketed as a young adult book, it has teen appeal, and it's been adapted into a film that many teens will see. ![]() The two main characters learn a lot from each other, especially about opening yourself up to different ways of thinking, but many - especially in the disabled community - have found the portrayal of Will and his point of view problematic, since he's presented as feeling that life isn't worth living if you're disabled. Will is facing a serious decision about his condition, and Lou, his hired caregiver, tries her best to get him to make the choice everyone else wants. ![]() ![]() Parents need to know that Me Before You is about an unlikely relationship between Louisa, a working-class British woman, and Will, a quadriplegic living at his wealthy parents' estate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As a critic wrote in 1938, “it is easily the best war book written by an Irishman” – arguably still true. This is a superb book, one of the best written by a “ranker,” all the better for being one of the very few to describe the early battles of 1914. Brought up to strength, it suffered the same fate at First Ypres. The battalion was involved in desperate fighting in front of Neuve Chapelle in October 1914, losing 181 killed in four days and virtually ceasing to exist, reduced to two officers and 46 men. There follow brilliant accounts of Mons, Le Cateau, and the retreat to the Marne, the turn of the tide and the Battle of the Aisne where his brother was killed. They later moved to Tidworth where the battalion was on 4 August 1914, in the 7th Brigade, 3rd Division ten days later they were in France. After six months at the Depot, they joined the 2nd Battalion at Dover. John Lucy, an Irishman from Cork, enlisted with his younger brother in the Royal Irish Rifles, an Ulster regiment, in January 1912. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a mermaid, she already felt like an outsider. Woon’s narrator is a mermaid who sought the land not due to her obsession over a human prince, but because she wanted to escape the control of her older sisters who regularly made decisions for her. The Little Mermaid was already a tale about ideas of belonging and spaces that prevented access, but Woon’s reimagining of the tale focuses on the way that our social and physical environments are made to exclude and reject certain bodies. ![]() In “The Mermaid and the Prince of Dirt”, Angeline Woon takes the exploration of essential otherness in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” and reworks it into a tale of disability and trying to fit into a world that actively prevents spaces of accommodation. Accessing the MermaidA review of Angeline Woon’s “The Mermaid and the Prince of Dirt” in Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories, edited by Kaitlin Tremblay and Kelsi Morris (Exile, 2016) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tags All the Answers, Falling Over Sideways, For Black Girls Like Me, Frogkisser, Giant Pumpkin Suite, Girl on a Wire, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, It Ain't So Awful Falafel, Ms.So, that pretty much wraps up my month in books, so I hope you all have an amazing December! That’s 15 posts, which is a lot, but I really want to post more, especially book reviews, because even though they are the hardest posts to write, they are still really fun, and I enjoy it a lot! That TBR and rereading the OBOB books is a lot, but I am going to try! Orange for the Sunsets, by Tina Athaide.For Black Girls Like me, by Mariama J.The Giant Pumpkin Suite, by Melanie Heuisier Hill.The Pox Party, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing #1, by M.But she finds herself making a new friend, Connor, who has his own disability to contend with. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wonderful story about a young girl who doesnt let a little thing like. When her father takes a job running a theme park out west, Aven worries that starting over at a new school is going to make her the focus of her classmates’ unwanted curiosity. I actually either own or borrowed from the library all of the books on my TBR, so here’s a picture of them, and a list of the titles: New York: Sterling Childrens Books, (2017) dj. In December, I’m going to continue to reread the OBOB (Oregon Battle of the Books) books, but I there are also some books I’ve been wanting to read for a long time. Books Like Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus Wink Twelve-year-old Ross is just trying to get through middle school, but he has more on his plate than the average kid. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth-not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room.So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. ![]() All she wants is to be normal again.But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roseline is left with questions that refuse answers and only the memory of a man she vows to hunt and kill, but to do so, she must call a truce with her sworn enemy. “…it has everything I love in my books from forbidden love to a kickbutt fight scene…I decided halfway through that this is one of the best books I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading!” Amazon REview His ability to grind concrete into dust pales in comparison to the glowing cross tattoo that mysteriously appears on his forearms.ĭespite the forbidden bond between them, Roseline can’t help wondering what Gabriel is. As their lives entwine, Roseline realizes that he is more than he seems. Roseline soon discovers that cliche is sometimes based on reality, in a painful way! Yet she remains relatively unfazed by it all until she meets Gabriel Marston. Mortal men flock after her while cutthroat girls plot her demise. Willing to risk everything for a chance at a normal life, Roseline escapes to America, but her transition into the human world isn’t easy. Roseline Enescue didn’t ask to become an immortal, to have all of the guests at her wedding slaughtered, or be forced into marriage with a man whose lust for blood would one day ignite the vampire legend. ![]() ![]() A timeline would be nice, and maybe some kind of family-tree like structure to clarify some of the relationships between Marvel and the other companies mentioned. I would like to see some graphic representations of some of the information in this book. I should note that I read a pre-publication copy of this work and so the following may no longer be relevant. It's interesting to know more about what underlay the oscillations in the quality of the comics over the years. ![]() It's fascinating to discover that the behind-the-scenes political and economic machinations of the Marvel company are as byzantine as the fictional Marvel Universe itself. ![]() ![]() This book is terrific! Very thorough, very engaging! I felt like it touched on pretty much everything - I don't feel like anything significant was left out - and yet it read easily and quickly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prepare to set sail and begin the adventure of a lifetime as Sam risks everything to stay alive and, maybe, become the man he has always dreamed of being. Everything he does brings him one step closer to escaping the Bone Rattler and returning to a life now far behind him. Sam sails the ocean, adventuring through storms and encounters with mythical creatures that should not exist. An unexpected miracle happens just when he is reduced to his lowest, though whether it is a blessing or curse remains to be seen. ![]() Tales of torture and violence so horrific he doubts he has the strength to persevere. Sam must first endure a fighting ritual to prove his value to the captain. Above all else, he wishes to return home to his family and to Molly. ![]() Now an unwilling part of the Bone Rattler’s crew, he must swallow his fears and learn how to survive in a brutal world. Stolen from all he knew while defending the honour of Molly, his twin sister, he is forced into a life of piracy. Sam discovered this the moment he was kidnapped. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Tennyson’s In Memoriam above, the poem reflects many Victorians’ difficulties in reconciling Christianity with the new worldview influenced by recent philosophy and scientific discoveries. The poem is about Rossetti’s struggle to feel close to Christ and the teachings of Christianity, and to weep for the sacrifice he made. This poem was published in Christina Rossetti’s 1866 collection The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems. ![]() ![]() To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss, That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, By the end of this long cycle of moving poems, Tennyson has conquered his doubts and his faith in God has been restored. ![]() Eliot said, was a great religious poem not because of the quality of its faith, but because of the quality of its doubt. These lines from this long 1850 elegy for Tennyson’s friend – perhaps his finest achievement – strike to the core of the greatness of Tennyson’s poem, which, as T. ‘There lives more faith in honest doubt, / Believe me, than in half the creeds’. ‘They Are All Gone into the World of Light’ is about death, God, and the afterlife, and the poet’s desire to pass over into the next life – the ‘World of Light’ – to join those whom he has lost. The Welsh metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan (1621-95) is best known for his 1650 collection, Silex Scintillans (‘Sparks from the Flint’), which established him as one of the great devotional poets in English literature. Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest, It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, They are all gone into the world of light! ![]() ![]() ![]() To help students understand how to create value and build customer relationships, Kotler and Armstrong present fundamental marketing information within an innovative customer-value framework. Principles of Marketing helps students master today’s key marketing challenge: to create vibrant, interactive communities of consumers who make products and brands an integral part of their daily lives. In a fast-changing, increasingly digital and social marketplace, it’s more vital than ever for marketers to develop meaningful connections with their customers. Learn how to create value through customer connections and engagement Kotler, Principles of Marketing, Global Edition, 18/E. Setting up MyLab Mastering for your course.Flexible Teaching Resources for English. ![]() |